Topic 1: Learning possibilities supported by the Internet

Topic 1

Creative Commons Licences

A creative commons licences is one of several public copyright license that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created. CC provides an author flexibility for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of their own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license that the author has specified.
 

how you think it can be incorporated into training institutions in South Africa

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Content can be adapted over time by multiple users. Content authors can control who can see and change their content, and can apply to their work a variety of rights and permissions from All Rights Reserved to Creative Commons open sharing, to enable crowdsourcing collaboration and remixing of content.

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Users can create and store materials  and then extend their content by sharing and making it discoverable to instructors across working groups, courses and institutions. Content is delivered through the cloud to users.

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 South African intsitution can able to sheare safe information through the autharization process this means that the information that the is sent to users online is protected.and the information can be identified if its based on issues such as plagarism .

 
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.intistutions can able to protect the copyright of work this means that the law of the creative licens will able to protect the copyright of the material that is used such books.protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license that the author has specified.


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South Afircan Institutions need to be able to licence in both learning materials from outside as well as to control how their own materials are used more widely.
Sharing resources amongst similar institutions makes sense financially and there are many policy reasons to do so. Digital resources produced by publicly funded organisations are a valuable asset to the research and education community.



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